Game Thread: Twins @ Tigers (Doubleheader), 7/17/2021

[Irishman]

Schoop, Grossman and Baddoo are killing the Twins!   They are ex-twin players.   They must have grudges against Twins for letting them go.   

[Vanimal46]

The Twins are impressively bad at these 7 inning double header. 1-6 so far, and they have scored 4 runs combined in the 6 losses. 

[Danchat]

So Barnes goes 4.2 and gives up 1 in his first career start... and Maeda has already given up 3 by the 2nd inning. Maeda has been beyond disappointing... and I would be open to giving Barnes more chances, even if he looked only decent against a middling lineup.

I can't get upset losing to the Tigers after sweeping them in a 4 game series, but they could really start a calamitous fall if they fail to get things done this weekend and then get pounded to dust by the White Sox in another 4 game series.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

10 minutes ago, Irishman said:

Made a must be deaf.  

Nah, i just didn't factorin the speed of sound, and my distance from the ball park. Shoulda said it earlier.

[Vanimal46]

Donaldson moon shot!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Meh, i am in my comfort zone, with an uphill battle...

 

Donaldson!!!!

 

Bats himself in.

[Irishman]

Tigers must have found the weakness in high socking Maeda wears.  

[Eris]

10 minutes ago, Irishman said:

Schoop, Grossman and Baddoo are killing the Twins!   They are ex-twin players.   They must have grudges against Twins for letting them go.   

I doubt that Baddoo has any grudges. He went from being 7 or 8 on the OF depth earning peanuts to being on MLB roster making MLB minimum with all the benefits of being in the majors. 

[Linus]

Corey and Dan are talking about Caves return. If he takes any ABs from Larnach or Kiriloff I will have a stroke.  

[Danchat]

6 minutes ago, Linus said:

Corey and Dan are talking about Caves return. If he takes any ABs from Larnach or Kiriloff I will have a stroke.  

I think he will probably take Celestino's and Gordon's OF ABs, but I think he will certainly be behind Kirilloff and Larnach in the pecking order.

[sampleSizeOfOne]

17 minutes ago, Linus said:

Corey and Dan are talking about Caves return. If he takes any ABs from Larnach or Kiriloff I will have a stroke.  

Please don't have a stroke.

 

Unless of course you're talking about golf, although even then they are undseired...

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Yeay, a tie game!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5th inning stretch....

[Danchat]

Donaldson is the last guy you want up in RISP situations... his OPS drops by over 200 points and he simply chokes when we need him to come through. ?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

5th inning stretch... Not sure i'd heared that before.

 

If i tell Kirlloff to start off a big rally now, will that be early enough he'll hear?

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Our turn again.

 

In play, run(s) please!

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Oh well.

 

I am used to not being heard.

[Brock Beauchamp]

Yikes, Robles. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Hey, maybe they’ll play nine. 

[h2oface]

I'd rather have Cruz at the plate than on first with no outs and a double play now in play.

[Vanimal46]

46 minutes ago, Danchat said:

Donaldson is the last guy you want up in RISP situations... his OPS drops by over 200 points and he simply chokes when we need him to come through. ?

Proven correct again tonight. Sigh… 

[Brock Beauchamp]

Admit it. Everyone was shocked as hell the Twins scored a run there. 

[h2oface]

Freebie there. Baddoo was right. Maeda "walk" in the second was a strike, and touched the zone, and he didn't get the call, and there would have been three outs and Baddoo never would have come to the plate.

Two close wrong calls have totally affected the game tonight. 

Until Rogers can't come through anyway. 

[Vanimal46]

Too easy. Tie game. 

[h2oface]

Just now, Vanimal46 said:

Too easy. Tie game. 

We really deserved our run..... and that strikeout, though, eh?

[RpR]

Rogers seems to have forgotten where the strike zone is.

[h2oface]

Nothing like a 5 day break to cool off the short spurt against the Tigers before the break.

[Vanimal46]

Yep, that’s a 2021 Twins way to end it. Looosah

[Vanimal46]

Was Gordon playing next to the fence? Showing obvious signs of inexperience not calling off Simmons. 

[sampleSizeOfOne]

Sigh.

 

I thinki will be rolling over and going back to sleep.

 

Thanks all for partaking of the game thread.